Paper doll



B. H. SCOTFORD.

PAPER DOLL.

APPLICATION -I-'ILED 1uLY30. 1920.

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BARON HENRY SCOTFORD, F ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY! PAPER DOLL;

Application filed Ju1y30, 1920. serial No.- 400,07113 ment in PaperDolls, of which the "following is a specification.

My invention relates to paper dolls and particularly to cut-out paperdolls of distinctive appearance and fashioned in a novel manner andwhich are designed to be used either alone or with doll clothingfashioned and produced in a similar manner.

T he objects of my invention are the pro duction of an attractive dolland clothing therefor without the aid of printing, paint-f ing or anyother of the arts or processes usually employed to impart to the dolland its clothing their distinctive appearance; and the production of adoll and doll-clothing from plain material solely by cutting from blanksparts of the material within the outlines of the doll and the dollclothing to form the desired pictorial representation or effect.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein are depicted examples of thevarious designs of dolls and doll garments in which my invention may beembodied,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a doll formed according to myinvention, and Figures 2 and 3 are similar views of articles of dollclothing also fashioned according to my invention.

Both the doll and its clothing may be made of paper, light cardboard orother suit-able material. The doll 1, shown in Fig. 1, is produced bycutting away surplus material from a blank to form the outline'of thedoll. lVhen this is done by a person skilled in the art of portrayinghuman features by the use of the scissors, accurate and life-likescissors portraits may be obtained.

The portrait is completed by a process which I term snip-sketching, thefeatures of the person whose likeness is being reproduced beingappliedto and bestowed upon the doll by cutting from the body of the doll atthe appropriate selected points pieces of the material of varying shapesand sizes to form slits or openings 2 so formed and arranged as to giveto the doll substantially the same appearance in general as if thedesign formed by the slits were printed or painted on the doll body.

The doll clothing is formed by this same process of "snip-sketching. Theoutline of a garment 3 is cut from'a blank of any-suit; able materialand of any desired color. The pattern'or design ot the garment is formedby mea-ns of slits or o'penin'gs 2 produced by cutting or snippingmaterial from the bodyof the garment in thesame manner employed informing thefeatures and design of the dollhereinbefore described:

The doll garment thus produced and constructed may be madeof'cloth'or'fabric, paper-,or other material, and may be used eitheralone or witlra solid backing of the same or a difierent color.Inord'er'to present a more distinctive and more attractivegarinen'g'however, I prefer to paste or otherwise secure the dollgarment to a sheet 5 of suit able material, preferably of a contrastingcolor with respect to the color of the garment.

For convenience in handling and for sale purposes a number of articlesof doll clothing formed in the manner above described may be thusattached in spaced relation upon and to a single large sheet of paper orlight cardboard, preferably somewhat flexible. In cutting out thegarment so mounted, tabs are provided on the backing at suitable pointson the edges of the garment, for example, at opposite edges of the topand sides, which. tabs, 4, are adapted to be bent over the edges of adoll of the general type shown in Fig. 1 to fasten the garment thereto.

Instead of mounting the snip sketch garment directly upon the backingmember 5, as shown in Fig. 3, the garment may be mounted as illustratedin Fig. 2, first on an intermediate backing member 6 of a colordifi'erent from or contrasting with the color of the garment, and thebacked garment then mounted upon the backing member 5 which may be of acolor contrasting with the color of the intermediate backing and alsopreferably contrasting with the color of the dress or garment, althoughthe same color of material may be used "for the garment 3 and backing 5with good effect.

The backing member 6 may extend slightly beyond the edge of the garmentto form a distinctive border, and the backing member 5 may extendslightly beyond the edges of both the garment and the intermediatebacking member.

In the drawings the tabs 41 are shown as formed on the backing member 0,but they Isa-1.1

may, in cutting out the difi erent parts, be formed on either theintermediate member 6 or the garment instead. l

A garment fashioned and arranged 1n the manner and form describedpresents an attractive and novel appearance. sign of the clothing iseffected by theslits or openings 2 and the provision of a material backof these apertures which is of a color preferably different from and incontrast with the color of the garment emphasizes the design, heightensthe efiect produced and materially increases the attractive appearanceof the garment. The presence of a single or double border of contrastingcolors along the edge of the garment, an example of which is depicted inFig. 2, further heightens the artistic effect and furnishes an addedelement to the pleasing appearance of the garment.

A similar effect may be produced upon the appearance of the doll 1 byproviding it with a backing of contrasting color in the same manneremployed in connection with the garments shown in Figs. 2 and 3, thedoll illustrated in 1 being shown with such a backing member 5. Ifdesired, the backing member may be in the form The deass? of a muchlarger sheet, taking the form of a panel upon which the dollmay bemounted for sale purposes or in order toconstitute a display card or asouvenir card.

I claim l. A cut-out figure doll having a body portion and a headportion, the body portionhaving apertures of varying size and shape inthe material of which the doll formed to depict the clothing of thedoll. and apertures similarly formed in the head portion to depictdistinctive physical features of the doll.

2. A doll garment having apertures of Varying size and shape in thematerial of which the garment is formed, to represent the distinctivefeatures of form and design of the garment, a backing for the garment ofsuitable material and possessing a color in contrast to the color of thegarment, and a second backing member of suitable material andcontrasting color upon which thegarment and 1ts first-mentioned backingaremounted, the backing members projecting beyond the edge of thegarment to form a distinctive border for the garment and beyond oneanother.

BARON HENRY SCOTFORD.

